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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Walnut and Vegetable Pate

I have been experimenting with a lot of nut cheezes recently. Today I decided to see what I could do with walnuts. I had originally intended to use this as salad dressing but then changed my mind and used the sprouted quinoa salad instead. After tasting this spread I knew it would be great with raw veggie dippers. It would also work well in place on mayonnaise on a sandwich. Here is what I made tonight.

This worked well with vegetable dippers but would also be a good salad dressing or sandwich spread. If you aren’t crazy about raw onion you may want to start with one tablespoon and go up from there. I happen to like onion, but not everyone does. This spread gets very smooth if you process it long enough. The texture is similar to whipped cream cheese. The color is close to salmon mousse. Next time I may season this will Old Bay and add dulse flakes to play with the salmon color.

Each serving of this salad contains approximately 1,150IU of vitamin A, 20mg of calcium, 20mcg of folate, 60mg of phosphorus and 30mg of magnesium. You can see how this would make a fairly nutritious sandwich spread in place of mayo that doesn’t contain any of those nutrients.

Unrelated note:

This is going to be my last post tonight. I hope you aren’t snowed in like us. Have a great evening everyone.

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I love walnuts, so this recipe sounds great to me! I love that you add sun-dried tomatoes, it sounds really flavorful! Yesterday, I made nut cheeze (your recipe) but I used raw cashews only and I made nori wrap with carrots and avocado, I really loved it (I think I liked the taste of miso paste in the mixture). Thanks for the inspiration, Alicia:)

You are very welcome. It was late last night when I stopped by your blog or I would have left a comment. I will be stopping by your blog later today.

Oraphan,

Glad you liked the nut cheeze in nori. I think the miso worked well in that one especially with the nori. I had leftover nut cheeze from that recipe and used a little water to thin it out and used as salad dressing. Thought I would mention that in case you had extra nut cheeze. Glad you liked it too.

Jeni,

Hi, glad you like the sound of it. I have been really into nut cheeze variations lately.

Heather,

The hubby and I have been eating a lot of these lately. I think this one would be great in a romaine leaf with chopped veggies on top. That may be our lunch today with a spinach salad.